Obama Has 3-1 Lead Over McCain With Latinos

Submitted by politicalWinters on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:35am.

According to a poll released today by the Pew Hispanic Center, Barack Obama has 66 percent of the Latino vote, compared to only 23 percent for John McCain.

Quote: “That number should be very, very sobering for the McCain campaign,” said Tony Fabrizio, the pollster for 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole. “The bottom line: Despite all of this positioning he’s taken on immigration, it’s shielded him nothing with Hispanics and it’s another point of distrust with Republicans.”

The story also points out that Hispanics voted 62 percent for the last Democratic nominee, John Kerry, and 32 percent for President Bush. In a nutshell, McCain is doing much worse among Hispanics than Bush did.

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Obama Has 3-1 Lead Over McCain With Latinos